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Bacteriology in British India : laboratory medicine and the tropics / Pratik Chakrabarti.
- Chakrabarti, Pratik
- Date
- 2012
- Books
About this work
Publication/Creation
Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2012.
Physical description
x, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Contributors
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-283) and index.
Contents
Introduction : bacteriology in the tropics -- Bacteriology in India : a moral paradigm -- Moral geographies of tropical bacteriology -- Imperial laboratories and animal experiments -- "A land full of wild animals" : snakes, venoms, and imperial antidotes -- Pasteurian paradigm and vaccine research in India -- Pathogens and places : cholera research in the tropics -- Conclusion.
Languages
- English
Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineFH.23.AA8-9Open shelves
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Identifiers
ISBN
- 9781580464086
- 1580464084